Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Elizabeth Taylor’s life story, triumphs, foibles, scandals, and tragedies sort of overtook her life, but her fame was actually built on a track record of very outstanding performances in excellent films. Particularly a series of films in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It’s long past time for all of us to take Elizabeth Taylor seriously as an actress and artist.
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Back in the 1950s, a big selling point for a movie theater was air-conditioning. Since air-conditioning is much more common now, there’s less of a need to escape to the theater to cool down. Whether you have air-conditioning or not, now’s the perfect time of the year to sit on the couch in your underwear with a big frosty jug of ice tea and watch some movies about heat waves.
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In celebration of Pride Month, let’s take a look at some of my favorite LGBT films from the 20th Century, starting with the 1930s and ending in the 1980s. All of these titles are available to rent on DVD Netflix.
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Researching movies from the 1950s, I found war movies, westerns, adventure films, and just a few that might have featured domestic life as more than just a backdrop. I found a few more made long after the 1950s. Neither of these depicted domestic life in glowing terms.
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